Theodore J. Mlynar

On September 22, IP Partner Ted Mlynar gave the opening keynote speech at the inaugural Healthcare Blockchain Summit at Z-Park, Cambridge, MA. Z-Park is the newly opened innovation hub, in collaboration with MIT-CHIEF and Harvard University’s student organizations. The summit gathered global key representatives in both research, industry and legal sectors of both fintech and

Ted Mlynar and Ira Schaefer from our Blockchain-Smart Contract IPMT Working Group return to the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal podcast series following their first episode in November 2017. Ted and Ira open this podcast with a brief account of Bitcoin’s background and give an overview of the current cryptocurrency landscape. They go on to discuss the following

New York IP partner, Ted Mlynar was interviewed by Law360 for its recent article “What IP Attys Need to Know About Blockchain“. Ted comments on the application of blockchain technology, not solely in the financial sector, but across a wide range of industries. In this interview, Ted also discusses the blockchain patent filing trends of big businesses and the issue

The NYIPLA’s 96th Annual Dinner in Honor of the Federal Judiciary will be held on Friday, March 23. This year, Hogan Lovells invites you to join us on a trip through the looking glass as we transform the Sutton South suite at the New York Hilton Midtown into our very own Wonderland for pre and post

Ted Mlynar and Ira Schaefer in our Blockchain-Smart Contracts IPMT Working Group were interviewed for the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal podcast series. Ted and Ira talk about their work with Ethereum smart contracts, and how blockchain technology can be used to protect intellectual property rights. They also discuss the important new roles for lawyers

Partner Ted Mlynar, senior consultant Amelia Lin, Dr. Zheng-yi Shon, Dean of the School of Management of Tainan University of Technology, and representatives from Microsoft and Acer in Taiwan, visited Wellington Koo, Chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) and his staff to discuss accelerating the pace of development of Taiwan’s financial technology. Dr. Shon noted

We are delighted to be participating in the NYIPLA‘s 95th Annual Dinner in Honor of the Federal Judiciary taking place on Friday, March 31 in New York City. As longstanding members of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, we look forward to this event every year. Keeping with tradition, the Hogan Lovells IPMT team will

Lewis R. Cohen, Ira Schaefer and Ted Mlynar are quoted in this recent article on Legaltech news which takes a look at “what makes smart contracts tick, and what new roles and skills they will demand of attorneys.” The following questions are covered: What are Smart Contracts, and How Do They Work? Can Binding Contracts Exist in

In the era of smart contracts, lawyers will still have plenty of work ensuring the devs get the code right. Many people expect that formal written contracts, and the lawyers that draft them, will be obsolete. It is presumed that the agreed-upon term sheet will be simply given to a software developer to convert into smart

In a previous article, we explored whether Satoshi Nakamoto could have patented bitcoin and whether such a patent would have survived an eligibility challenge. In this post, we look at some of the legal and practical issues facing the would-be blockchain patentee including: ‘Alice’ Eligibility Questions for Blockchain Inventions Post-‘Alice’ Eligibility Updates Practical Approaches For

In this post we examine the issues that can arise when recording smart contracts in an immutable system and raise the need for enhanced due diligence before any transactions are written in “blockchain stone”. “…due diligence will bring together specialized transactional lawyers who can review the terms of a specific deal, software experts who can

Bitcoin is a technological marvel that has revolutionized financial systems. The birth of bitcoin came in 2008 in a paper entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. The genesis block – the first block of transactions – was created the following year, and the network has continued ever since. Given

In the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), Congress generally rejected the “inevitable disclosure doctrine” prevalent in the trade secret law of many jurisdictions. Interestingly, the DTSA appears to leave open whether, and to what extent, the corollary “memory rule” will be applied in connection with a federal trade secret misappropriation claim. Under the inevitable disclosure

On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) into law, thereby creating a new federal civil cause of action for trade secret misappropriation. Before the DTSA, trade secret misappropriation claims were asserted under state laws that largely follow the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”). The DTSA does not

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